Numerous settings of original classical Latin texts exist, although more often than not, composers chose to set the literary works of Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Virgil, and others in a modern translation.

With a name derived from the classical Latin name for the island of Ireland, Belmond Grand Hibernian will offer two-, four- and six-night rail experiences that visit the major destinations of the North and South, including the train's Dublin base, Belfast and Cork.

The book's provocative introduction ("Modernity in the Balance: the 'Transgressive' Essay and Decolonization") reintroduces the classical Latin American genre of the philosophical essay as a present-day "aesthetic transgression linked to decolonization" (p.

Praiseworthy is the fact that, in compliance with Novak's wish, the singers adhere to the Classical Latin pronunciation (the booklet contains a brief explanation of the specificities of the "restored" Latin, which is relatively uncommon to the ears of the Czech listener).

Using the same framework of Functional Grammar that she used in her 2013 book on constituent ordering at the sentence level in Classical Latin prose, Spevak looks at the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases, which she says is very flexible in comparison to modern European languages.

The riddle about the one-eyed garlic seller is a direct translation of a Latin riddle by Symphosius and the storm riddles, which are the first riddles in the collection, have been plausibly compared with classical Latin texts dealing with meteorology--specifically texts concerned with the origin of winds and storms.

Ludus" in classical Latin meant inter alia 'game", but if one looks in the Latin dictionaries, one will not find the adjective "ludicus", which must be derived from the substantive "ludus" (in Medieval Latin it neither existed.

The scholarly subject matter of this volume, the complexities of Isaac Casaubon's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century work on classical Latin, Greek, Hebrew and to a lesser extent, Arabic texts, might not be of immediate attraction to all potential readers.

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